Disc drive not reading burned DVDs

[Asbradley21]

Hello all, as you can tell by my post count I am new here (please hold the tomatoes). I am glad I have found this forum, you know the routine....

Okie dokie onto my problem....
I have a ThinkPad R40 with a Hitachi-LG CD-RW/DVD model# GCC-4240N and I have burned some dvds(plays retail ones just fine) and the drive won't read them. It acts as if the disc is blank but if there is no disc in the drive, windows just says drive not ready. I have a friend with a ThinkPad and I'm gonna see if I put in his drive to see if it will read.

Thanks in advance.

[tfflivemb2]

Welcome to the Forum!!!

I would try downloading this neat little tool:

http://www.nero.com/nero6/enu/Info_Tool.html

It will tell which discs formats your drive can read. It might be that you are using DVD+R, instead of DVD-R or vice-versa.

[Asbradley21]

Well, I got that tool and it said that I have both DVD-R and DVD+R. My old Hp Pavilion n5350 laptop reads them just fine though.

[ThinkPad R]

I guess your many thanks in advance didn't pay back for a long time.

I think your drive has a scratch. The lens.


I accidentally scratched my lens.


Out of 1/10^9999999999999... chance, I missed the lens's center, and hit it by the side.

Now, it CAN read CD's & write too, but if it's a large file (i.e. 600MB), then it will fail to write.

[Asbradley21]

Actually, oddly enought,it just got over it

[davidfarmer]

sounds like you got it under control, but my old computer (R40) only did - discs, not +.

[Asbradley21]

Thats what I got now but when I bought it, the guy had upgraded it to a multiburner.